Wall-register-door holder.



G. S. AUBE.'

WALL REGIS-TER DOOR HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED APB.14, 1913.

1,082,788. Ptented De@.30,19113;

\ QN Qml-F L L @S @EE nrrnn srnlngpnrnnr rio GEORGE S. AUER, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE AUER REGISTER COMPANY, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO, A CORPORATION OF OHIO.

WALL-REGISTER-DOOR HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Iatented Dec. 3), 1913.

Application led April 14, 1913. Serial No. 760,872.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, GEORGE S. Arran, a citizen oi' the United States, residing at Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tall-Register- Door Holders, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in Wall-register door-holders, the primary object of the invention being to provide a combined holder and adjuster for the doorvalve or damper used in connection With hotair side-Wall registers for the purpose of directing or deecting all or any portion of the hot air current into the room in which the register is located or for passing all or any portion of the hot air current into the room above.

A further object is to provide'an exceedingly simple, cheap, and eflicient holder and adjuster for doors or valves of this class which may be readily and conveniently attached to or detached from a suitable portion of theregister casing or Wall panel,

"the improved adjuster having the additional function or object of forming a support and hinged connection for the door valve, the latter and the holder or adjuster being detachably secured, in the present instance, by means of a single attaching element.

With the above mentioned and other ends in View, the invention consists in the novel construction, arrangement, and combination of parts, hereinafter described, illustrated in one of its embodiments in the accompanying drawings, and particularly pointed out in the appended claims.V

Referring to the drawings, forming a part of this specification, Figure l, is a perspective view of the improved holder and adjuster applied to a Wall panel or grille and the door or valve of a register, the door or valve being shown in a partially open position. Fig. 2, an enlarged central vertical sectional view taken through the upper portion ofthe door and Wall panel and the bearing portion of the improved holder and adjuster. Fig. 3, a horizontal sectional view taken through line 3 3 of Fig. 2. Fig. 4, a perspective view of the inner or underside of the improved door holder and adjuster as applied to the upper portion of the Wall panel and door hingedly connected there- With. Fig. 5, a sectional view through the marginal edge of the Wall panel or grille and the adjacent marginal edge of the door or valve When the latter is closed.

Similar numerals of reference designate like parts throughout all the figures of the drawings.

The improved Wall register door or valve holder and adjuster comprises a supporting or bearing member l, adapted to extend through and t Within a suitable opening in the upper portion of the Wall panel or grille 2, of the register casing, or some other suitable and convenient place of support, said bearing or attaching member l, in the present instance, being provided with marginal flanges la, adapted to engage With the marginal edges of the opening in the Wall panel or grille 2. and to coperate with the latter when the fastening element or screw bolt 3, at the top is drawn up as hereinafter described. As a means for hingedly supporting and connecting the door or valve member 4, Within the Wall panel or grille 2, the upper portion of the supporting member l, is provided With a bearing recess or notched portion lb, adapted to receive and contain a reinforcing Wire 5, arranged Within a beading 4a, formed along the upper marginal edge of the door or valve 4f.

The upper portion of the door valve 4L, is provided with an opening or recess 4b, adapted to receive the lug portions of the bearing member l, and in the actof attaching or assembling, the bearing member l, is adapted to be first inserted through the opening in the upper portion of the panel or grille 2, and through the opening or recess 4", in the door or valve 4i, with the bearing portion 5a, of the Wire resting in the bearing or recess portion lb, of the supporting or bearing member l, after Which the screw bolt 3, is inserted through a suitable opening in an attaching lug or head member 1, and as a means for causing the flanged portion la, of the bearing member to be drawn firmly against and to be securely maintained in Contact vvith the subjacent marginal portions of the panel or grille 2, the attaching lug is slightly beveled or cut away at the rear of the upper portion of the panel 2, with a fulcrum portion 1d, bearing against the underside of the panel or grille 2, Ythus causing the main body portion of the bearing member 1, to be securely maintained in seated position as the bolt 3, is

drawn up and is turned in the nut 3a, the latter being seated, in the present instance, between two flange members le, at the rear of the lug portion of the supporting or bearing member. v

As a means for actuating the door or valve 4, and holding the same in any desired adjusted position, a door operating member G, is pivotally mounted within the supporting or bearing member l, said pivot connection,

in the present instance, consisting of a bear-- ing screw bolt 7 extending through a bearing lug 1f, and provided at its opposite end with a nut 7, the latter being supported as against turning by means of a second bearing lug 1g, said door operating member 6, consisting of a handle member extending forwardly through an opening in the bearing member l, and projecting in front of the latter for ready operation, and as a means for detachably and movably connecting the member 6, to the door valve 4, said operating member is provided with a bifurcated member formed by means of oppositely arranged bearing armsor fingers 6, the latter being provided, in the present nstance, with bearing heads 6b, adapted to contact with and swing the door` from its pivoted portion in an obvious manner as the handle member 6, is moved upwardly or downwardly as desired, for the proper adjustment of the door or valve 4.

As a means for holding the door operating member 6, and the door or valve 4, in any desired position to which it may be adjusted a spring tension member 8, is interposed between the bearing lug lf, and the adjacent or contiguous portion of the operating member 6, and -it will be observed that as the bearing screw 7, is drawn up the tension and resistance of the spring member 8, against the side of the operating member 6, will be increased so that the desired amount of friction between the parts may be secured in holding the parts to any desired adjusted position.

Having thus described one of the embodiments of my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is,-

1. A wall-register door-holder, comprising a register wall member, a bearing member detachably secured thereto, a door valve hingedly and detachably connected to said bearing member, a door operating lever mounted in said bearing member and provided with oppositely arranged bearing iingers extending on opposite sides of said door valve, and resilient tensioning means connected with said operating lever for holding the same in adjusted position.

2. A wall-register door-holder, comprising a register wall panel, a bearing lmember mounted thereon and provided with an attaching lug extending at the rear of said wall panel, a door valve provided with an opening adapted to receive and contain said attaching lug and provided with a bearing pintle carried by the latter, anV attaching element connected to said attaching lug and said wall panel, and a door operating finember mounted in said bearing member and `eX- tending through said opening of said door valve.

3. A wall-register door-holder, comprising a register wall grille, a slotted bearing member mounted in the upper portion of said wall grille and provided with attaching lug extending at the'rear of `said `wall grille and provided with a bearing portion, a door valve provided at its top with opening at the rear of said bearing member and having a bearing member seated in said bearing portion of said attaching lug," a door operating member detachably mounted in said bearing member and provided with an operating member extending through the opening of said door and de tachably connected to the latter.

In testimony whereof I have aiiixed my signature in presence of two witnesses;

' GEORGE S. AUER. lVitnesses:

O. C. BILLMAN, J. lV. I-IAYwARD.

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